Carter Apartments shootout

The Carter Apartments shootout occurred in early 1990 when the NYPD stormed the Carter Apartments housing projects in Harlem, Manhattan as a part of an operation targeting Nino Brown and his Cash Money Brothers gang. The raid occurred after the NYPD's informant in the CMB, Pookie Robinson, was compromised, with detectives Mario Stone, Scotty Appleton, and Nick Peretti organizing an assault on the CMB's base in the crack den. The NYPD killed several gangsters in the shootout, but many policemen were lost. The gangsters set fire to the apartments and attempted to blow it up, hoping to conceal the evidence of the drug operation occurring there. However, Appleton and Peretti succeeded in defusing the bomb (which was tied to Robinson's bloody corpse) two seconds before it could explode, preventing the apartments from being destroyed. The raid was regarded as a failure, as many policemen were killed, the police wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars on the operation against Brown, and the CMB leaders escaped. Appleton and Peretti were forced to infiltrate the family themselves after Robinson's death.